Re: additional json functionality

On 11/13/2013 07:39 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> Would be possible to have a boolean, such as 'strict' - so that unique & ordered was only imposed when strict was
TRUE?Alternately, separate functions to allow the same choice?
 
> It should be a pretty-printing function option, perhaps, but not core to the type itself, IMO.


I don't in the least understand how it could be a pretty printing 
option. If we move to a binary rep using the hstore stuff order will be 
destroyed and not stored anywhere, and duplicate keys will be lost. Once 
that's done, how would a pretty print option restore the lost info?

cheers

andrew